Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States is to avoid becoming a hegemon in decay, set toward an ignominious end, we must shape a new policy--above all towards NATO," writes David Calleo in a recent issue of New Perspectives Quarterly...
While most economists think the U.S. will be able to putter along without a recession for at least another year, they see the hazard as increasingly difficult to avoid. Says Jerry Jordan, chief economist at First Interstate Bancorp in Los Angeles: "Things are going to get very dicey in 1989. It will be the worst of all worlds." Concurs Allen Sinai, chief economist for the Boston Co. Economic Advisors: "This is the first time in perhaps six years that the word recession is in my vocabulary, and I don't take the word lightly. I see one starting late...
Those five barriers must be overcome before the political system reacts. The role of leadership is critical in spreading awareness, in framing solutions, in offering a vision of the future we want to create, as well as a vision of the nightmare we wish to avoid...
Which is not to say that successful design has turned bland and safe. The best new buildings and products are lively and provocative even as they avoid ideological purity. The compelling modernism of the moment is lush, dreamy and concerned with appropriateness, not big, inhumane and cookie-cutter corporate; successful ersatz-old-fashioned buildings are lately tough and even somber, not merely quaint and pleasant. Hybrids abound, and modesty is a virtue. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Long Island pool house, for example, combines industrial materials and delicate details. The Clayton County (Ga.) Library delivers a high concept with...
...runs from Chinatown a dozen or so blocks north to Cooper Square. "Oh, if I just wanted to stand here and give them away, I could get rid of 1,000 in an hour. Easy. But I prefer to go looking for the people I want. The ones who avoid eye contact. It is not so much the gloves, but telling people they count...